So basically a week ago I was asked by a family friend if I wanted her old double bed because she'd recently got a new one and would otherwise just be throwing it out. Naturally I wanted to get it, because I've had the same single bed for over a decade now, and because two people in a single bed isn't exactly comfortable (as is the case when Dani stays over). That left me with a challenge though, because my room is very small (it was actually designed as a study) and I had next to no room in there to begin with, so fitting a double bed wasn't going to be easy.

Long story short I figured out a way to do it by drawing a scale model of my room and the furniture in it, then just moving them around to find and arrangement that worked. I then spent the entirety of last Sunday going through my room and ditching half a dozen garbage bags full of accumulated junk, moving just about all of the furniture out of my room, taking apart my old bed, setting up my new bed and moving everything back into my room. The results are below:

tl;dr I got a double bed and redesigned my room to fit it:

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NOT TO SCALE

This is just a rough diagram I drew in Paint of my old layout (left) and the new layout (right). Pretty sure my old bed was longer and probably a little wider than that; basically there was no room for anything in my old layout. Mainly drew this because I forgot to take before photos.

Spoiler: Pictures

NOT TO SCALE

This is just a rough diagram I drew in Paint of my old layout (left) and the new layout (right). Pretty sure my old bed was longer and probably a little wider than that; basically there was no room for anything in my old layout. Mainly drew this because I forgot to take before photos.

I think that my new bed/desk could just fit side by side in the room, but because of the big new chair I got for my birthday it meant that I struggled to get in and out of the chair with the old bed, let alone the new one. That's the main reason it needed such a big overhaul, and not just replacing the beds.

So yeah, there you have it. My room!

Also I did put these on facebook too but not everyone has that so I thought I'd put them up here too.